- From: Fred Andrews <fredandw@live.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:16:35 +0000
- To: "singer@apple.com" <singer@apple.com>
- CC: "public-privacy@w3.org" <public-privacy@w3.org>
Received on Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:17:05 UTC
> David Singer <singer@apple.com> > > I'd rather see this discussion start in the privacy interest group than Yet Another Community Group, I think. > Dear David, The goals of PING and the Private User Agent Community Group (PUA) are quite different and they measure success and will be run in different ways so I would prefer to keep them separate. The PING defines its success by "Increased awareness of Web privacy implications within W3C. Establishment of a systematic process for privacy considerations in Web standards." Whereas the PUA's proposed measure of success is to minimizing leakage of identifiable and private information from the user agent while trying to preserve functionality and convenience for users. Further the PUA proposes to develop design solutions to address privacy at the UA and solutions to mitigate loss of functionality and it is proposed that the patent disclosure obligations apply. The PING charter does not appear to apply the patent disclosure obligations to discussions on the public mailing list. Finally the PUA's goal may never be accepted by a lot of w3c interest groups because fixing the leaks will break some cherished functionality. PING may well better address its goals by not being associated. cheers Fred
Received on Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:17:05 UTC